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Comment by dustinmoris | Hacker News Reader

This could be really useful, however I wonder how teams will find answers to their questions without a private Google channel :)

I don't know anyone who actually finds the answer via SO search.

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That, and one gets usually chastised when not finding a duplicate via this search box.

I always check Google results, then look at the yellow suggestions box for earlier posts and sometimes end up with a duplicate (rarely but still).

This usually ends up with a "closed as duplicate" (which is fine) but also sometimes end up with cynical, passive aggressive remarks on Meta.

I love SO (and SE in general). It helped me to understand and discover things I was not aware of.

But Meta is an abomination, full of people with ego issues and heavy complexes. I abhor this community, which is a shame as I stopped to file bugs in SO just because of the toxic environnement there.

PM on Stack Overflow Channels here. You make a valid point. :) And I can assure you, the success of Channels is predicated on a solid update to the way we do search (as well as better integration with tools you might already be using, like Slack).

> I don't know anyone who actually finds the answer via SO search.

I had to load up the site just to look where the search box even was. Not that it is hidden by any means, just that my eyes follow google -> topic title -> green arrow -> scan other solutions/comments and I had no mental reference of their search bar in my head

I thought the same thing. "Oh cool!" Immediately followed by "But wait, how do I google these answers?"

SO search never seem to find the answer I'm looking for, but once I start writing a question it almost always ends up finding a similar (answered) question. So their search works but perhaps it needs lots of input

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